50 Cents - Charles III Supersonic Concorde

The Concorde program ended not with a technical failure but a commercial one — Air France and British Airways retired the aircraft in 2003 following the catastrophic crash of Flight 4590 in July 2000, a collapse in post-9/11 transatlantic demand, and Airbus's withdrawal of maintenance support. Solomon Islands has issued novelty-format coinage under licensing arrangements for decades, and this piece falls squarely within that tradition: a commemorative with no monetary connection to the depicted subject.